'Cooks and drivers were working as interrogators' at Abu Ghraib jail

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Many of the prisoners abused at the Abu Ghraib prison were innocent Iraqis, picked up at random by US troops and incarcerated by underqualified intelligence officers, a former US interrogator from the jail told the Guardian.
Torin Nelson, who served as a military intelligence officer at Guantánamo Bay before moving to Abu Ghraib as a private contractor last year, blamed the abuses on a failure of command in US military intelligence and an over-reliance on private firms.

He alleged those companies were so anxious to meet the demand for their services, they sent "cooks and truck drivers" to work as interrogators.

"Military intelligence operations need to drastically change in order for something like this not to happen again," Mr Nelson told the Guardian.

He claimed many of the detainees are "innocent of any acts against the coalition".

"One case in point is a detainee whom I recommended for release and months later was still sitting in the same tent with no change in his status."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1211374,00.html

[mzmolly]

1. Send this to Limbaugh, Hannity, and all the other F-ers who claim

that the prisoners were *murderers* :eyes:

[MSgt213]

2. I don't mean to be rude, but Limbaugh, Hanity and all the other F-ers can

kiss my fucking ass. Those dishonest bastarded aren't worth the cyperspace for me to send them morons anything.

[aquart]

3. Yes, yes, we know.

And think how attractive they'll look buried in an avalanche of evidence.

[mzmolly]

4. Ok then send it to Franken.

;)